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(Reuters) – CIA Director William Burns will meet this weekend in Rome with his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts and Qatar’s prime minister for talks on a Gaza ceasefire and the release of hostages by Hamas, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday. The source, who requested anonymity, said Burns would meet Qatari Prime …

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By Dominique Vidalon and Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) – Saboteurs attacked France’s TGV high-speed train network in coordinated actions that caused chaos on the country’s busiest rail lines ahead of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Friday. The action took place despite a massive security operation involving tens of thousands of troop and police to …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is traditionally one of the top Olympic medal winners, but many Russians are likely to ignore the Paris Games because Russians and Belarusians cannot take part under their national flags under a ban imposed over the war in Ukraine. Russia and the former Soviet Union combined are second to the United …

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli officials criticized U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for the presidency, after she said it was time for the war in Gaza to end given the suffering being caused by the fighting. Harris’ remarks at a press conference following a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …

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KYIV (Reuters) -Russia attacked Ukrainian energy facilities in two regions between the capital Kyiv and the Russian border with drones overnight, leaving tens of thousands of people without power, Ukraine’s national power grid operator said on Friday. The governor of one of the regions, Chernihiv, told the national television at least 15 people were wounded …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s RIA state news agency on Friday broadcast a video in which a Russian citizen said he had blown up a military officer in his car in Moscow earlier this week at the behest of the SBU Ukrainian security service. Reuters could not independently verify the handcuffed man’s assertions and there was …

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By Stoyan Nenov ELIN PELIN, Bulgaria (Reuters) – One person was killed and another seriously injured when a blaze at a firework factory in Bulgaria set off a series of dramatic explosions late on Thursday, local officials and medical staff said. The blasts began at around 6.30 p.m. in the town of Elin Pelin near …

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By Jonathan Landay, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ahmed Mohamed Hassan WASHINGTON/CAIRO (Reuters) – Israel is seeking changes to a plan for a Gaza truce and the release of hostages by Hamas, complicating a final deal to halt nine months of combat that have devastated the enclave, according to a Western official and a Palestinian and two …

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